Ivory Tower

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• Ivory Tower — «Ivory Tower» Sencillo de Van Morrison del álbum No Guru, No Method, No Teacher Lado A Ivory Tower Lado B A New Kind of Man Grabación 1985 Género(s) …   Wikipedia Español

• ivory-tower — ivory tower; ivory tower·ish; ivory tower·ism; ivory tower·ist; ivory tower·ish·ness; ivory tower·ite; …   English syllables

• ivory tower — ivory towered, ivory towerish, adj. ivory towerism, ivorytowerishness, n. ivory towerist, ivory towerite, n. 1. a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower. 2. an attitude of aloofness from or… …   Universalium

• ivory tower — ivory towers N COUNT: usu prep N, N n (disapproval) If you describe someone as living in an ivory tower, you mean that they have no knowledge or experience of the practical problems of everyday life. They don t really, in their ivory towers,… …   English dictionary

• ivory tower — as a symbol of artistic or intellectual aloofness, by 1889, from Fr. tour d ivorie, used in 1837 by critic Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve (1804 1869) with reference to the poet Alfred de Vigny, whom he accused of excessive aloofness. Et Vigny,… …   Etymology dictionary

• ivory tower — n a place or situation where you are separated from the difficulties of ordinary life and so are unable to understand them, used especially to describe a college or university ▪ an academic in an ivory tower …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• ivory tower — People who live in ivory towers are detached from the world around them …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• ivory tower — noun count the situation of someone in a place such as a university that protects them from the practical or unpleasant things that exist in most people s lives …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• ivory tower — ► NOUN ▪ a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the harsh realities of life …   English terms dictionary

• ivory tower — n. a condition or place, as academia, regarded as isolated or withdrawn from the practical affairs of society …   English World dictionary